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Show Philology Tells Story of Long-Vanished Race Somewhere, and so long ago that It is equally Impossible to say when, there dwelt In Europe or Asia a most remarkable tribe of mankind, says a writer In the Kansas City Times. These people are not mentioned in any ancient history and no legend gives a hint of their existence. Not even an authentic grave of one of Its members can be traced. Yet this ante-legendary race has been raised from the dark past and displayed In its ancient shape until modern historians know as much of It as of many peoples yet living. The words spoken by that mysterious race, the gods It worshiped, the laws It made, the character of Its Industries and possessions, its family and political politi-cal relations, even the conditions of' Its intellectual development and its racial characteristics, are all well known. These people were the fathers of the so-called Aryans, who in growing numbers swelled beyond the boundaries bounda-ries of their ancestral home and went forth to conquer and possess the earth. Knowledge of this ancient race has been brought about solely by workers in comparative philology the study of words. Word by word the language of the original Aryans has been exhumed from the descend- i ent modern languages until, pieced together, to-gether, they tell the story of a vanished van-ished people. |